With the assistance of consultant Jerry Bond from Urban Forest Analytics LLC, the City of Batavia recently completed their first comprehensive Tree Management Plan. It was funded through Round 12 of the Environmental Protection Fund (EPF) Cost-Share Grant program, administered by NYSDEC. City of Batavia Director of [...]
Village Green and the Red Hook Town Tree Commission are pleased to share these urban forest management plans. Longtime Red Hook environmental advocate Brenda Cagle shares some background with us. The Town of Red Hook Forestry Management Plan is an example of a volunteer-created plan for a small [...]
Brenda’s at center, wearing sunglasses, with other members of the proud Red Hook Village Green Committee. Can you tell us about your childhood influences that foreshadowed getting interested in conservation, trees, and urban forestry? Brenda Cagle: Growing up in West Virginia in the Ohio Valley [...]
Using data from the TreesCount! 2015 inventory, NYC Parks brings us the interactive New York City Street Tree Map, the world's most extensive, accurate, and detailed tree map. With the Map, anyone can access data about any street tree in the City. Users can learn about [...]
Baldcypress grove in Buffalo’s Forest Lawn Cemetery. Photo by Michelle Sutton Round 13 of the NYSDEC Urban Forestry Grants Program was announced on December 22, 2016. NYSDEC Commissioner Basil Seggos has announced the availability of $2.3 million for Round 13. Applications are due by March 1, [...]
At TreesCount! 2015 orientation events, NYC Parks staff and their partners met with volunteer citizen scientists to talk about how the ongoing census helps the City, how citizen scientists can participate in the data collection, and how the census methodology works in the field. [...]
Nyack’s Tree Inventory began in the Village’s Memorial Park Here, Nyack Tree Committee Chair Marcy Denker discusses the tree inventory recently completed in her Village. You can see the full tree inventory report here, and the key findings from the inventory can be seen after [...]
Trees on Main Street in Scottsville NY that were planted in the mid-80s thanks to a citizen-driven planting initiative. Photo by Elizabeth Murray Elizabeth Murray is a former Village of Scottsville Trustee and a past chairperson of the Village’s Forestry Board, and now serves as [...]